Events — 2026
134 events with findings this period
The Fort Worth City Council will consider rescinding the honorary street designation for Cesar Chavez along State Highway 183 due to recent allegations against him, while preserving the concurrent honorary designation for Dolores Huerta established in the same 2020 resolution.
Journalist: The article does not name the allegations against Chavez, which is the stated basis for the entire action.
Resident: The March 31 council vote would formally remove the Cesar Chavez honorary name from Northeast and Northwest 28th Street along State Highway 183.
Rockwood Grille at Rockwood Park Golf Course is hosting an Easter brunch buffet on April 5 with seating from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., featuring a menu prepared by Chef Branndon at $36 for adults and $18 for children ages 4–12.
Resident: Families with children 3 and under attend free, and three seating slots on April 5 offer flexibility.
Fort Worth will hold bond and charter elections on May 2, 2026, featuring an $845 million bond package with six propositions covering streets and mobility, parks, libraries, affordable housing, public safety facilities, and animal care improvements, along with nine proposed charter amendments. District 10 residents will also vote in a special election to fill the council vacancy left by Councilmember Alan Blaylock's resignation.
Journalist: The state-mandated 'THIS IS A TAX INCREASE' label on every bond proposition — even as Fort Worth says the package is structured to avoid any rate increase — is a built-in voter confusion angle.
Resident: Public education meetings on the bond and charter propositions continue through April 18 at community centers citywide.
Developer: Proposition D's $10 million affordable housing fund — Fort Worth's first — explicitly allows land acquisition, site preparation, construction, and infrastructure development for projects serving households up to 120% AMI.
A press release about Fort Worth's transportation system, covering a new look, services for diverse riders, and future direction, though the description provides only section headers with no substantive detail.
Journalist: Fort Worth's transit system is being positioned around rebranding, ridership inclusivity, and a forward-looking strategy.
The City of Fort Worth is hosting the Cowtown Masters Par 3 Contest at Pecan Valley Golf Course on April 8, a nine-hole individual medal play event open to all players with registration fees ranging from $32 to $45 per player depending on timing and annual pass holder status.
Resident: The early registration rate of $32–$40 per player expires April 3, five days before the April 8 event.
Journalist: The event is routine parks programming tied to the timing of the Masters golf tournament.
Fort Worth is hosting a free Scrap Tire Collection event on March 28 at City Hall, allowing residents to drop off passenger vehicle and small equipment tires with no limit and no charge. The event is part of the 41st Annual Cowtown Great American Cleanup aimed at reducing illegal dumping and fire hazards.
Resident: The tire drop-off window is narrow — four hours on a single Saturday (8 a.m.
Journalist: This is the 41st annual iteration of the Cowtown Great American Cleanup, suggesting a long-running civic program.
Fort Worth Municipal Court is hosting a Court in the Community–Warrant Forgiveness event on March 28 at The Potter's House of Fort Worth, where up to 120 residents with outstanding Class C citations can resolve cases without fear of arrest and may qualify for community service or fine reductions based on ability to pay.
Resident: If you have an outstanding Class C citation with Fort Worth Municipal Court — traffic, ordinance, or penal code violations — the March 28 event at The Potter's House, 1270 Woodhaven Blvd, offers a chance to resolve it without arrest and without necessarily paying the full amount owed.
Attorney: The Safe Harbor protections described apply exclusively to warrants issued by Fort Worth Municipal Court, not warrants from other jurisdictions.
Journalist: City Councilmember Deborah Peoples' direct appearance in promotional videos represents an unusual level of elected official visibility for a routine court access event.
In recognition of Global Recycling Day on March 18, Fort Worth promotes proper recycling habits through its Rethink Waste initiative, encouraging residents to keep recyclables clean and dry and avoid contamination so materials can be efficiently processed at the city's Material Recovery Facility.
Resident: Fort Worth residents can improve recycling effectiveness immediately by ensuring containers are empty, clean, and dry before cart placement and by keeping plastic bags out of the recycling stream entirely.
Journalist: Fort Worth attributes MRF efficiency directly to resident behavior at the cart, but the release discloses no contamination rates, commodity revenue, or facility performance data that would establish whether the Rethink Waste campaign is responding to a documented problem or is routine outreach.
University Drive will be closed in both directions from Lancaster Avenue to Rosedale Street from March 24–26 for unspecified work, temporarily affecting traffic and closing the main entrance to the Fort Worth Botanic Garden during that period.
Resident: University Drive between Lancaster Avenue and Rosedale Street will be fully closed starting March 24 at 12:01 a.m., affecting anyone who uses this corridor.
Journalist: A full two-direction closure of University Drive between Lancaster and Rosedale is scheduled for approximately 51 hours beginning March 24, with FWPD deployed on-site.
The 2026 Nature & Narratives Educational Series returns to Fort Worth parks with monthly wildlife and nature education events scheduled from April through October at four park locations.
Resident: The first event — Coyotes & Other Mammals at Oakmont Park — is April 11 at 9:30 a.m., four days from the article's publication date.
Journalist: The article describes the series as returning in 2026 but names no coordinating city department, nonprofit partner, or funding source.
One year after launch, Fort Worth's Mobile Tool Shed program has helped nearly 200 residents access free yard maintenance tools, logging over 300 checkouts while reducing costly code compliance abatements citywide.
Resident: Fort Worth residents can borrow free yard maintenance tools — including lawn mowers — through the Code Compliance website or by searching the Parent Pass app.
Journalist: The city's year-one report highlights nearly 200 residents served and 300-plus checkouts but provides no figures for program operating costs or abatement savings.
Two park events are announced for March 28: Nature Con, an annual outdoor celebration at the Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge, and the grand opening of a new street soccer field at Hillside Park, created through a partnership between Park & Recreation, Street Soccer USA, Visa, and Bank of America.
Resident: Both events offer outdoor recreation on March 28 at no or low cost.
Journalist: The Hillside Park soccer field represents corporate-funded conversion of a public park asset — a tennis court replaced by an artificial turf soccer field — through a Street Soccer USA partnership backed by Visa and Bank of America.
Literacy Roundup 2026 is a City of Fort Worth initiative partnered with Go Beyond Grades and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation, offering free dyslexia screenings for youth at five libraries and 13 community centers, with summer camp literacy programming running June through July.
Resident: Library screenings at East Regional, Southwest Regional, Northside, and Vivian J.
Journalist: The program screened approximately 400 students in 2025 from a smaller footprint; the 2026 expansion to 13 community centers through Camp Fort Worth raises the question of how many students are projected or enrolled this cycle.
Historical press release about The Cellar, a beatnik music club that opened in Fort Worth around 1958 and operated across four Texas cities, notable for its distinctive atmosphere and performances by musicians including future ZZ Top members and comedian George Carlin.
Journalist: The Warren Commission examined the Cellar visit by Kennedy's Secret Service detail the night before the assassination and concluded no agent was intoxicated or unfit for duty, though it acknowledged some agents were out late.
The Citywide Job Fair, originally scheduled for March 28, has been canceled.
Resident: The March 28 Citywide Job Fair is canceled.
Journalist: The city canceled a public job fair with no stated reason and no rescheduling information.
Fort Worth activist Opal Lee, known as the 'Grandmother of Juneteenth,' has been added to Mattel's 'Barbie Inspiring Women' doll collection, honoring her decades of advocacy that led to Juneteenth becoming a federal holiday in 2021 and her receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2024.
Journalist: Lee's inclusion in the 'Barbie Inspiring Women' line is a concrete local news peg tied to a nationally recognized Fort Worth figure.
Resident: Fort Worth residents can participate in Lee's recurring annual Juneteenth walk, held each June 19.
The city is announcing the March 25 submission deadline for its Trashion Fashion Show contest, inviting designers of all ages to create clothing or accessories made from at least 50% recycled or discarded materials, with winners invited to showcase their work at the 2026 Earth Party at Trinity Park.
Resident: The March 25 submission deadline is roughly two weeks from the publication date, leaving limited time for residents who want to enter.
Journalist: The Trashion Fashion Show is presented as part of the city's Earth Party programming at Trinity Park, paired with the Cowtown Great American Cleanup.
The Consumer Health Customer Service Office is relocating to City Hall (100 Fort Worth Trail, Fifth Floor) starting March 12, where residents can obtain permits, pay fees, and access general customer service assistance.
Contractor: Businesses that pull Consumer Health permits — food service operators, temporary event vendors, body art establishments — need to update where they go for in-person permitting and fee transactions starting March 12.
Resident: Anyone who visits Consumer Health in person to apply for permits, pay fees, or attend classes should update their records to City Hall, Fifth Floor, starting March 12.
The Fort Worth Public Library is hosting an Adult Spelling Bee at two branch locations in March, where teams of two to six can compete with winners advancing to a Regional Bee.
Resident: The first event at Southwest Regional Library is Saturday, March 14 — four days from the article's March 10 publication date.
Journalist: The Fort Worth Public Library is running a multi-location adult spelling bee with a regional advancement pathway, suggesting a tiered program rather than a one-off event.
Fort Worth City Council approved 82 substantive items at its March 10, 2026 meeting, with 63 of 64 motions passing unanimously.
Contractor: The March 10 meeting awarded seven new contracts and approved six change orders across water, sewer, stormwater, transportation, environmental services, and facilities.
Resident: The Oncor Electric Delivery substation at 5621 Parker Henderson Road was approved 7-3 despite seven community speakers in opposition — the meeting's only split vote.
Developer: Three large CD 8 rezoning cases totaling approximately 120 acres — two Anglin corridor industrial and data center proposals and one Oak Grove Road light industrial case carrying a Zoning Commission denial recommendation — were continued without final action through June 2026.
Fort Worth's Financial Management Services Department released the city's first-ever Fiscal Year 2025 Popular Annual Financial Report (PAFR), providing residents with a visually accessible overview of the city's financial health to promote transparency and smart long-range planning.
Journalist: Fort Worth's first PAFR is a transparency milestone timed to the city's crossing of 1 million residents in 2025.
Resident: Fort Worth has produced its first plain-language financial summary for FY2025, designed to help residents understand city finances without specialized knowledge.
Assistant City Manager Dana Burghdoff has been named to the 2026 Class of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP), the profession's highest honor, in recognition of her contributions to planning practice and leadership.
Journalist: Burghdoff oversees seven departments including Economic Development and Code Compliance alongside Planning, giving her unusual cross-departmental reach for a planning-credentialed official.
The City of Fort Worth promotes its 817311 text-to-report service, which allows residents to submit non-emergency service requests for issues like street conditions, park maintenance, and code enforcement via text message.
Resident: Fort Worth residents can report non-emergency city service issues — including broken streetlights, damaged park equipment, graffiti, and stormwater problems — by texting a description to 817311.
Journalist: The city describes its Customer Care Division as award-winning but does not name the award or awarding body.
Fort Worth Animal Care & Control is hosting its annual 'Bow Wow Meow Puppy & Kitten Shower' on March 14 at Chisholm Trail Community Center to collect donated supplies and recruit fosters for neonatal animals ahead of the spring shelter intake surge. The event includes educational programming on caring for newborn puppies and kittens and a donation raffle.
Resident: The March 14 event at Chisholm Trail Community Center is five days from publication and offers Fort Worth residents a direct opportunity to foster neonatal animals, donate supplies, or learn care techniques from FWACC staff.
Journalist: FWACC frames the spring intake surge as an annual, nationwide shelter pattern.
Fort Worth Water Department is offering no-cost SmartIrrigation Assessments to help qualifying residents maintain compliant irrigation systems under the city's twice-a-week outdoor watering ordinance, helping them avoid enforcement fees starting at $25.
Resident: Fort Worth homeowners and property managers with in-ground sprinkler systems should register now while spots remain available.
Journalist: The city is marketing a free compliance program against an enforcement ordinance that escalates to irrigation lockouts.
Fort Worth marks the one-year anniversary of its move to New City Hall at 100 Fort Worth Trail, the former Pier 1 corporate campus purchased in January 2021, replacing the outdated Old City Hall at 200 Texas St.
Resident: Water account services and building permit inquiries are now consolidated on the fifth floor of New City Hall at 100 Fort Worth Trail, open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.
Journalist: The article does not disclose the January 2021 purchase price, a public record that would let readers assess the city's claim that acquisition was more cost-effective than renovation or new construction.
Fort Worth's Park & Recreation Department received two statewide honors at the TRAPS annual conference: the Lone Star Recreation Programming Award for Dream Club (an inclusive program for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities) and the Planning Excellence Award for the GREENprint Fort Worth parks and open space master plan.
Resident: GREENprint Fort Worth is the operative long-range plan guiding future investment in the city's parks, open space, and public realm.
Journalist: GREENprint Fort Worth was chosen as the TRAPS Planning Excellence Award winner from more than 200 Texas submissions, indicating it is regarded as a statewide model.
The 2025 Mayor's Neighborhood Awards ceremony recognized registered neighborhood associations across Fort Worth in categories including Neighborhood of the Year, Fort Worth Pride, Spirit of Fort Worth, and Community Collaboration and Engagement. Lake Como Neighborhood Advisory Council was a top winner in multiple categories.
Journalist: Lake Como Neighborhood Advisory Council swept four voluntary competitive categories and the individual Code Officer award — five recognitions from a single association in one ceremony.
Resident: The winners list maps active, City-recognized neighborhood associations across Council Districts 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 11.
Preview of the Fort Worth City Council meeting on March 10, covering a $124,103 voluntary contribution from the Tarrant Regional Water District for the Panther Island Public Improvement District, reallocation of $214,932 in ARPA funds for neighborhood Wi-Fi and IT infrastructure, purchase of disaster recovery equipment, a new habitual nuisance commercial property ordinance, and eleven zoning cases.
Resident: The March 10 meeting is four days away and includes a public comment period.
Journalist: The preview lists eleven zoning cases without names, locations, or case numbers, making the full posted agenda the essential document for this meeting.
Attorney: The proposed Habitual Nuisance Commercial Properties ordinance would create a new City Code category with enforcement implications for commercial property owners.
The Fort Worth Park & Recreation Department is hosting a Summer Day Camp Job Fair on March 14 at Diamond Hill Community Center, recruiting Camp Leaders, Senior Camp Leaders, and Literacy Support Specialists for Camp Fort Worth and Mobile Recreation programs at 21 community centers and four schools.
Resident: Fort Worth residents seeking seasonal employment have a narrow window: the job fair is March 14 and applications close March 16.
Journalist: The Literacy Support Specialist wage of $35/hour — nearly double the Camp Leader floor — and its Texas driver's license requirement stand out in a standard parks hiring announcement.
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